Hertfordshire Applications Developer Jobs

This section looks at the demand for the Applications Developer role in IT jobs within the Hertfordshire region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Applications Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Application Developer
Location Abingdon Alfreton Andover Basildon Basingstoke Bath Batley Bedfordshire Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Bridgend Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Cardiff Carshalton Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham City of London Clapham Colchester Corby Coventry Crewe Croydon Cumbria Dagenham Derby Derbyshire Devizes Devon Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Anglia East Kilbride East Lothian East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Edgware Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Fife Flintshire Gateshead Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Grantham Guildford Hampshire Harlow Harpenden Harrow Haverhill Hayes Hemel Hempstead Hendon Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Huddersfield Hull Ilford Isle of Man Kendal Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Leighton Buzzard Lewes Lewisham Lincolnshire Liverpool Liversedge London Luton Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Peterlee Pewsey Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Renfrewshire Romford Ruislip Runcorn Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Stafford Staffordshire Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swindon Taunton Thame Thames Valley Torquay Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Wantage Warrington Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Widnes Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Wirral Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	154	159
Rank change on same period last year	+5
Matching permanent IT job ads	14	23
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.008 %	0.010 %
As % of the category below	0.332 %	0.481 %
Salaries quoted	12	22
Average minimum salary	£32,750	£27,727
Average salary	£34,708	£29,955
% change on same period last year	+15.87 %
Average maximum salary	£36,667	£32,182
UK excluding London average salary	£33,265	£35,638
% change on same period last year	-6.65 %
Job Titles Hertfordshire
Matching permanent IT job ads	4220	4782
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	2.272 %	1.993 %
Salaries quoted	3577	4151
Average minimum salary	£37,451	£37,023
Average salary	£41,307	£40,383
% change on same period last year	+2.28 %
Average maximum salary	£45,164	£43,743
UK excluding London average salary	£38,055	£39,430
% change on same period last year	-3.48 %
Applications Developer East of England

Applications Developer
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Applications Developer across the Hertfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Applications Developer
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Applications Developer across the Hertfordshire region.

Applications Developer
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Applications Developer across the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008.

Applications Developer
Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Applications Developer within the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Watford	+3	6	£36,083	+33.64 %
Welwyn Garden City	-	1	£30,000	-
Bishop's Stortford	-	1	£36,000	-
St Albans	-3	1	£27,500	-16.34 %
Potters Bar	-	1	-	-

Applications Developer East of England

Applications Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT jobs across the Hertfordshire region that cited Applications Developer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled with Applications Developer in their job title.

1 29 (76.32 %) C# 2 28 (73.68 %) .NET 3 26 (68.42 %) SQL 4 21 (55.26 %) VB.NET 5 19 (50.00 %) Oracle 6 18 (47.37 %) VB 7 17 (44.74 %) VB6 8 15 (39.47 %) UML 8 15 (39.47 %) OOD 8 15 (39.47 %) Microsoft 9 14 (36.84 %) SQL Server 10 13 (34.21 %) Retail 10 13 (34.21 %) Degree 11 11 (28.95 %) MCSD 11 11 (28.95 %) Microsoft Certification

11 11 (28.95 %) Project Management 12 7 (18.42 %) ASP.NET 13 6 (15.79 %) XML 14 4 (10.53 %) SQL Server 2005 14 4 (10.53 %) SQL Server 2000 14 4 (10.53 %) ADO.NET 14 4 (10.53 %) JavaScript 15 3 (7.895 %) Transact-SQL 15 3 (7.895 %) VBScript 15 3 (7.895 %) HTML 15 3 (7.895 %) CSS 15 3 (7.895 %) OO 15 3 (7.895 %) Health 15 3 (7.895 %) Agile Software Development 15 3 (7.895 %) .NET Framework

Applications Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT jobs across the Hertfordshire region that cited Applications Developer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled with Applications Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 28 (73.68 %) .NET 2 7 (18.42 %) ASP.NET 3 6 (15.79 %) XML 4 4 (10.53 %) ADO.NET 5 3 (7.895 %) CSS 5 3 (7.895 %) .NET Framework 5 3 (7.895 %) HTML 6 2 (5.263 %) MVC 6 2 (5.263 %) LAMP 6 2 (5.263 %) XSLT 6 2 (5.263 %) XHTML 7 1 (2.632 %) J2ME 7 1 (2.632 %) WebServices 7 1 (2.632 %) ASP 7 1 (2.632 %) MIDP 7 1 (2.632 %) CLDC 7 1 (2.632 %) WinForms 7 1 (2.632 %) WCF 7 1 (2.632 %) WPF 7 1 (2.632 %) WF	Application Platforms 1 2 (5.263 %) Apache 1 2 (5.263 %) SharePoint 2 1 (2.632 %) BizTalk Server 2 1 (2.632 %) SharePoint Server 2007 2 1 (2.632 %) IIS
Applications 1 2 (5.263 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 1 (2.632 %) ATM 1 1 (2.632 %) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 14 (36.84 %) SQL Server 2 4 (10.53 %) SQL Server 2000 2 4 (10.53 %) SQL Server 2005 3 2 (5.263 %) SQL Server Integration Services 3 2 (5.263 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 3 2 (5.263 %) MySQL 3 2 (5.263 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 3 2 (5.263 %) MS Access 4 1 (2.632 %) RDBMS	Development Applications 1 1 (2.632 %) VSS/SourceSafe 1 1 (2.632 %) NUnit 1 1 (2.632 %) CruiseControl
General 1 13 (34.21 %) Retail 2 3 (7.895 %) Health 3 2 (5.263 %) Pensions 3 2 (5.263 %) Marketing 4 1 (2.632 %) Graphic Design 4 1 (2.632 %) Mobile Games 4 1 (2.632 %) Games 4 1 (2.632 %) Insurance 4 1 (2.632 %) Telecoms 4 1 (2.632 %) Construction 4 1 (2.632 %) Education 4 1 (2.632 %) Government	Miscellaneous 1 2 (5.263 %) Computer Science 2 1 (2.632 %) Multithreading 2 1 (2.632 %) Client/Server 2 1 (2.632 %) N-Tier 2 1 (2.632 %) EFT 2 1 (2.632 %) PDA
Operating Systems 1 2 (5.263 %) Windows 1 2 (5.263 %) Linux 2 1 (2.632 %) Windows Mobile	Processes & Methodologies 1 15 (39.47 %) UML 1 15 (39.47 %) OOD 2 11 (28.95 %) Project Management 3 3 (7.895 %) OO 3 3 (7.895 %) Agile Software Development 4 2 (5.263 %) Unit Testing 4 2 (5.263 %) OOP 5 1 (2.632 %) E-Commerce 5 1 (2.632 %) Disaster Recovery 5 1 (2.632 %) Workflow 5 1 (2.632 %) Content Management 5 1 (2.632 %) Systems Analysis
Programming Languages 1 29 (76.32 %) C# 2 26 (68.42 %) SQL 3 21 (55.26 %) VB.NET 4 18 (47.37 %) VB 5 17 (44.74 %) VB6 6 4 (10.53 %) JavaScript 7 3 (7.895 %) Transact-SQL 7 3 (7.895 %) VBScript 8 2 (5.263 %) PHP 8 2 (5.263 %) DHTML 8 2 (5.263 %) PHP5 9 1 (2.632 %) XPath 9 1 (2.632 %) Java 9 1 (2.632 %) C++	Qualifications 1 13 (34.21 %) Degree 2 11 (28.95 %) MCSD 2 11 (28.95 %) Microsoft Certification
Vendors 1 19 (50.00 %) Oracle 2 15 (39.47 %) Microsoft 3 1 (2.632 %) Sybase 3 1 (2.632 %) Symbian